LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A British Spitfire Aeroplane (1)
MARCH 16TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
A British Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £19 4s..
A Small Sailing Boat (1)
APRIL 21ST. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A small sailing boat had capsized off Hayling Island. The life-boat found nothing, but a naval launch found the boat and picked up two dead bodies. - Rewards, £4 13s..
Margaret and Manx Heather (1)
JUNE 24TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.50 in the evening a message came to Douglas that the motor boat Margaret was in distress in the direction of Laxey, and at 8 P.M. the motor life-boat Manchester and Salford was launched. A...
A British Bombing Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in flames off Southwold, but her crew were lost. - Rewards : Lowestoft, £11 15s. ; Aldeburgh, £49 2s..
After Naming West Mersea's New Atlantic 21 Alexander Duckham on July 1 Another Brilliant Summer Day and Unveiling An Inscribed Plaque R a G Joseph Marketing Dir
After naming West Mersea's new Atlantic 21 Alexander Duckham on July 1, another brilliant summer day, and unveiling an inscribed plaque, R. A. G. Joseph, marketing director of Duckhams (I.) with S. R. Page, publicity manager, went aboard... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Lake Michigan (1)
DUNGENESS, KENT, AND WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—At 3.30 A.M. on the 19th February, the s.s. Lake Michigan, of Liverpool, collided with a sailing vessel about two miles S.W. of Dungeness.
The steamer, a very large one of 9240 tons...
The S.S. Amiral Aube (1)
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND MARGATE.
—A message was received at Walton-onthe- Naze by telephone from the Gunfleet Lighthouse, on the morning of the 14th January, stating that a steamer was flying signals of distress 2J miles S,E...
A Motor Fishing Boat (1)
31st January. A motor fishing boat had broken down, but was towed into safety by another fishing boat.—Re- wards, £14 12s..
A Small Rowing Boat (1)
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — On the afternoon of the 15th September the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was returning to harbour after her quarterly exercise when a small rowing boat was seen near Foreland Point. Owing to cross currents this...
The S.S. St. Walburg (1)
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Eastbourne coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station that the S.S. St. Walburg, of Groningen, which was about one mile south of...